The worst kind of racism is the kind you can’t technically prove but you know it’s there. Being followed in a store is one of those instances. A clerk pretends to be shifting through some clothes here or there or organizing a shelf when really he or she is just following to make sure you don’t steal anything. Then as soon as you try to call them on it or tell someone about it, the deniability is there. It’s taxing and it weighs down on anyone who’s had to go through it.

That’s where this Vine comes in. One guy catches a clerk in the act and it’s brilliant, hilarious and depressing…all in the six seconds it takes to make a Vine. Sometimes, that’s all it takes.

Your psyche must be very fragile if you need to respond to a nonviolent situation with violence. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King would be weeping for PoC today if he could see how they glorify thug life. Never give up the dream, home slice.

Ugh…. This reminds me of when I was in Crenshaw visiting friends and I walked into the corner market and was basically stared down and tailed the whole time BLANTANTLY. But I really couldn’t be mad about it, grew up knowing this is how it is sometimes.

Hilarious. Assuming this wasn’t staged, it’s pretty typical behavior… Intellectuals have taken to calling incidents like this “micro-aggressions”—something small, often 1-on1 interactions, but indicative of a larger more pernicious ideology and mentality.

Best thing this young buck can do is laugh it off and go shop elsewhere. She won’t change, but he’s got options for gettin his sweettooth on.

It’s not whites against every other races. It’s mexicans hating on blacks and vice versa. Asians hating everyone except for whites…. don’t nobody like each other and is been like that since the beginning of time. But when a white person gets caught, all the races all of a sudden unites. Smh

It’s not hypocritical at all. Whites have the dominant, institutional power in this country. They can (and have) literally change the entire infrastructure of this country. That’s why it’s a big deal when they continue to exhibit behaviors like this. But it is reflective of problems like this on a much larger scale.

Not 1 comment so far has mentioned the fact that the clerk was white. It would be just has sad, infuriating, funny if the clerk was any other race. the young brother needs to stop shopping at that store.

Before you bust out with the sarcasm and cliches about microscopic musical instruments, I think @Troiboi123’s point isn’tt defending or excusing the behavior, nor is he (at least from that one post) dismissing the ideas of institutional racism. He’s describing the ways in which people of different racial/ethnic identities prejudge or as he says “hate” other people who don’t look like them. Furthermore, he’s saying it’s an issue that is equally carried out across groups, has been for years, but it only seems to catch flack (according to @Troiboi123) when it’s white on Black…

@Drhiphop: I understood what he was saying, and also explained why he was wrong. Hatred ISNT carried out equally because of what I explained above. Power. The reason why another minorities don’t catch as much flack for hating each other is because we can’t affect each large scale. If a Chinese person hates me, it’s small scale. Chinese nor any other minorities have the power to affect entire demographic, large scale. The only people that do, are White people. Which is why it’s such an issue when a person of the ruling demographic exhibits destructive behavior. Because they can/have/are actually affect(ing) entire demographics.

I wonder if it’s always the race with the minority that’s under fire or its just because white people are in the majority. For instance when the hispanic population becomes the majority, which it’s been proven that they eventually will be, will you have the same things to say to them if they aren’t moving fast enough along the progressive spectrum?

You’re blanket statements regarding white people @SixHourErection are as unfair as a minority not getting their voice heard/values recognized.

What this vine is showing us isn’t what you think. This is a classic situation of a group of people fucking it up for everyone. Do you think that store clerks have always been following people around with the assumption of theft? No it’s because some asshole has more than likely stolen from them in the past. Here’s the thing, whoever is running that business, black, white, asian, whatever, it’s still a business. Bottom lines and all that. If people keep coming in and stealing your inventory then you can’t make money. Guess what happens when a business doesn’t make money? It disappears.

Was this kid stealing? probably not. But you better believe that if its a store with food in it then somebody has stolen from there before. Therefor they have to watch for that shit. It’s not sad that this kid is followed for the assumption of stealing, it’s sad that the store has to treat him that way to protect their own interests, because somebody before him was desperate/destructive/malicious and chose to take what didn’t belong to him.

This the shit I like. Point it out, but don’t get mad. It’s pointless. People are what they are. Plus shit can get out of hand really easily. Some woman got the police called on her because they thought she was stealing, and we all know how heavy handed some cops can be. Getting mad might land you in the back of a squad car (or worse).

Someone doesn’t know the difference between racism and being prejudice.

Racism is the belief that one race is superior to another.

Prejudice is different. Prejudice is the pre-judging of a situation or person based upon less than all the facts.

There are things that could have caused her to follow him around. She could have been robbed by someone black before. Is it fair to group everyone together just based on skin color or how people dress? No. But does it happen on all fronts, yes.

I’m white and when I was younger it happened where people who owned a convenient store told us to buy something or get out and would follow us around. It happens, it’s just people like to make a bigger deal about it then what it is.

“Someone doesn’t know the difference between racism and being prejudice.”

Says the person who then proceeds to use the extremely oversimplified (read: incomplete) Webster/Oxford definition of Racism. Who also then proceeds to do something White people love to do by;

1) Try to come up with reasons to justify overtly racist actions against People of Color (PoC) by insinuating some PoC, somewhere, at some point in time, did something bad that turned the poor innocent White person into a racist (right, because America’s history clearly shows us that White people aren’t capable of being despicable humans without some PoC turning them into one).

2) Try to downplay overtly racist actions by telling us about some isolated incident (completely ignoring the fact that these things are FAR less likely to happen to them) about how something similar happened to them that one time.

Great, bring up something about America that every country has done. Gone to foreign lands, take it over, take the people, enslave them, and use them in a cruel manor. Was it, is it wrong? Yes. Has every country done this not just enslaving Africans, but also people based on their beliefs or just because they are from a different land? Yes.

And yet again, you’re just someone else who seems to feel like every white person is racist and white people are the only racist people in America. I’m not trying to down play it, but I also don’t think it’s a huge deal compared to some of the stuff that happens or is said.

PoC have never been known to steal from stores. It’s just not something they do, ever. So yes, this employee was being racist and the worst person on the planet. Luckily she was caught on video by this young PoC just wandering around the store in a completely unsuspicious manner.

Never said all White people are racist. But you among others keep using all this bullshit arguments. Foreign countries? So because this type of stuff happens elsewhere I shouldn’t bring it up? People like you is what’s wrong with this country.

What’s wrong with saying black people? Y’all got lost on the way to Tumblr.

Hate hurts everybody, man. Acting like it’s ok to hate white people cause they’re white doesn’t do anybody any good. It’s a copout, asking people to do what you won’t do yourself. “But it’s different!” smh

It’s funny, this does happen, but this doesn’t mean he caught a racist. Unless she’s the owner of the store, she could be following the directives of management. Most people working at a place like this aren’t in the position to say they won’t do this.

U can’t classify this as racist. As a teen I worked in pathmark and cvs. We the black employees would pretend to be checking inventory to watch would be crooks of all races. It’s funny cuz the white crooks would accept punishment take a picture with some spam and call it a day. The black ppl tho will call u all kinds of Uncle Tom early when they guilty.
I remember we caught some lady with a baby in a stroller, she filled the entire bottom of the stroller with candy and covered it with a blanket. Guess what race!!

Yeahhh, but this dude doesn’t give off the vibe of your common thief. They’re just going off of prejudice, whether it be because of his age, ethnicity, attire (highly doubt this one), or a combination of all 3.

So what kinda vibe does your common thief have? Cuz when I was a stealing mf’er I looked just like this kid, just darker skin. Let’s not get into that whole dark skin vs lite skin thing also. But I never dressed up like a thief when I stole anything, my goal was to be as harmless looking as possible. I’m not excusing this lady at all I don’t her or her business practices and I’m also a victim of being followed thru stores by non black employees. I’m just recalling my own experiences. A lot of time I watched ppl and they never stole shit, sometimes ppl I didn’t watch stole tons of shit. I remember a group of 12yr old girls 3 of them were caught in our store stealing makeup. 2 Spanish 1 black. Luckily I was fuckin wit the black one older sister so I got her out of that jam the other two had to call parents. Parents accused us of racism, we showed them the tape and they apologized. After that we watched every teenage girl in the makeup isle.
Should no one ever be followed in a store ever? Or only followed by your own race? The vine doesn’t tell the whole story. I hate choosing this side of the debate but fuck it.

Yeah I’ve had your experience @County of Kings as somebody who stole and as somebody who caught people stealing…there is no doubt people’s prejudice’s go into things but its never as cut and dry a story as people on the internet like them to be. We like our narratives simple: Good vs Evil…anything other than that makes people get frustrated.

Did you consider that adults do this shit to every kids because they’re most likely to steal, I’m white and this happened to me often when I was a kid. It has nothing to with race do but eh I don’t give a fuck, keep staying with that mindset, america is fucked up anyway.

Another similar story happened, I think it was last week. Floyd Mayweather accused some TV Host of racism because she made the statement that his association with Justin Bieber was odd. How poisoned and BLIND do you have to be to think this has anything to do with race ? She would have never said that if it was, let’s say, Drake and JB, it makes sense. How does an association between a teenager who sings to teenager girls and a 40 year old man who is the best pound for pound at beating the shit out of grown men, ISN’T odd ? This is what I’m talking about, there’s no common sense in america, only poison.

How is it odd? The common denominator is money. Millionaires hang around each other. Floyd is a black millionaire and Bieber is a white millionaire and guess what they both love to party. Not only that, his daughter’s listen to Bieber and he’s done plenty of private concerts for that family. Bieber’s not a teenager. Bieber hangs around white millionaires older than he is and they don’t get nonsense questions and statements about it being odd.

Stop looking at the surface and read between the lines sometimes. If Floyd Mayweather was hanging around IDK a random young black person like I guess Kyrie Irving or RG3 or whoever she wouldn’t have came at him like that. FACTS.

I’m glad Floyd responded how he did. Random TV host needs to do some research before interviewing and popping off at the mouth. What if you and a black coworker or friend went out for drinks after work is that odd???

We’re not going to even get into who’s “most likely to steal” because there’s absolutely no profile whatsoever on thieves. They come in all forms, shapes, sizes, ages, ethnicitiy, and backgrounds. Whether it’s bubble gum out the candy store, Wall Street point shaving and insider trading, identity theft, accountants skimming off the top, CEO selling company secrets to outsiders etc. etc. etc. forever and a day. Skin color matters not when it comes to thieves.

This lady is standing near him in every aisle. IN A GAS STATION/CORNER STORE. That’s not random. While she’s following this guy around someone else is probably stealing and she missed it. It’s stupid.

Remember last week, TSS had the article about the kids in Brooklyn or wherever and they had the white guy and black guy both try to break in their own car?? If you don’t remember that article I guarantee you already know the outcome. Black guy arrested hemmed up in 5 minutes by numerous cops….white guy….NOTHING even when the police rolled right by him.

As someone said above: the common denominator is money. I’m glad we made that point because this is a video about a business protecting their common denominator. So really with that logic, you shouldnt have a problem with this video.

If you really think its about race and you feel that strongly about it, go out there and find out for yourself. Get a job in retail for 6 months maximum and you will see that theft has no color. Desperate people are desperate people.

Realize that any malicious act, such as stealing, has an impact on everyone in that area. Other people end up paying the price for previously made poorly constructed decisions.

All this talk and I have one question (after looking at the video a few times): is she even white-white? Like would that change the feelings here if she was Latina and not good ol’ Euro-white? idk…maybe I’m bugging

real story
about 14 years ago I worked at a Best Buy. It was a black friday. I worked in merchandising so I was in that bitch stocking shelves at midnight, belly still full. Well I get off from work and am standing in the long ass lines to make a couple buys, (no shortcut love for the employees) As I sat in line watching the madness I watched a customer with about 60 or more cds walk right out of the store, without blinking, i let you guess as to what color he was….this was about a month into employment.

fast forward a few months,
we were given bonuses based on how much theft could be avoided, shrink. theses numbers were posted on the wall in the front of the store. We really well one year , almost 1000 dollar bonus. The next we ended up missing 20 ps3s various laptops, car stereos..etc…
We had daily meetings about this and how it had to be employees stealing and how me not having my shirt tucked in while stacking boxes raised questions as to my involvement….this was in front of the entire store. Pissed I yelled at him that someone must be either blind or stupid to think me or anyone else was stuffing that type off shit, If so I yelled then we must be putting car stereos in our socks!!! Then I proceeded to tuck my pants into my socks and said ” Hey problem solved”
Well the mystery of the lost items were eventually solved….See they were never there in the first place. The loss prevention supervisor ( same asshole making accusations) keyed these items as being here previously to artificially boost the shrink numbers, so the employees got a bonus he could get a massive one. He jumped ship before anyone found out, and used what was thought at the time as a major achievement to land a higher paying job.

oh and that 1000 dollar bonus that us employees got, ended up getting taken back.
I swear on everything I dont care who’s there, how old I am, If I ever see Arron and that blonde buzzcut I am taking that grand back, via ass beating plus interest.

When I worked at a grocery store in so cal we were instructed by management to follow young kids in general regardless of race. Honestly the easiest ones to spot are the white kids lookin to steal, cuz they all have a Famous shirt on, baggy shorts, shitty facial hair and a Fox racing hat on. Might as well hold up a sign that says I’m up to no good!